Meet the Author

Claudia Castro Luna is an award-winning poet and writer, an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019-2020), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Green the World (Chin Music Press, 2026), One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press, 2020), Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022) and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press, 2017). The latter two titles were shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively. Castro Luna is also the author of and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press, 2016). Her most recent non-fiction is in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage) and in Memory's Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden (Empty Bowl). Castro Luna’s memoir, The Flowers Along the Way is forthcoming from Curbstone in fall 2026.

Born in El Salvador, Castro Luna lives in English and Spanish, and writes and teaches in the Seattle metro area on unceded Duwamish lands. Watch Castro Luna’s Poetry of Place talk at TEDxUofW and the PBS Newshour Segment featuring her and her signature project, Seattle Poetic Grid.

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